Located between the centre of Cairo and the
city's airport the design for Cairo Expo City delivers a unique
facility for Cairo - state of the art city for exhibitions and
conferences.

The project comprises a major international exhibition and
conference centre with business hotel. A further office tower and a
shopping centre are also proposed.

Carving and sculpting processes have been used to divide the
very large exhibition and conference areas required for Cairo Expo
City into clusters of individual buildings that have
their own formal composition, yet each building relates to the
overall design. A main north-south artery is carved through the
design, with secondary streams converging at the centre to ease
crowd traffic during event. The movement of people within
these streams informs the building entrances on the site.

Image courtesy Zaha Hadid
Architects

As the exhibition spaces require the greatest
degree of flexibility, we wanted to ensure that all the public
spaces and formal composition of Cairo Expo City relate
to the surrounding Egyptian landscape. Along the great
rivers of the region, most particularly the Nile, there is a
powerful dynamic - a constant flow between the water and the land -
which extends to incorporate the neighboring buildings and
landscapes. For the Cairo Expo City design, we worked to capture
that seamlessness and fluidity in an urban architectural
context.